The Fuselage

Aircrafts look the same then 70 years ago

1. Airliner’s fuselages didn’t change for 70 years All current aircraft are Tube & Wing designs. A wing, which generates lift, a tube-like fuselage, which holds the load, and a balancing tail. Only small improvements were made to noses, cockpit windows, wing-root fairings and tail-cones. However, these  can not improve much further.

2. Revolutionary designs are required for greater efficiency

Aircraft Technology Roadmap to 2050, https://www.iata.org/contentassets/8d19e716636a47c184e7221c77563c93/technology20roadmap20to20205020no20foreword.pdf
Aircraft Technology Roadmap to 2050
NASA X-plane: Double-bubble designed by Aurora Flight Sciences in IATA Aircraft Technology Roadmap to 2050
NASA X-plane: Double-bubble designed by Aurora Flight Sciences in IATA Aircraft Technology Roadmap to 2050
Parsifal Box-wing design in IATA Aircraft Technology Roadmap to 2050
Parsifal Box-wing design in IATA Aircraft Technology Roadmap to 2050
Flying-V aircraft concept developed by TU Delft in collaboration with KLM in IATA Aircraft Technology Roadmap to 2050
Flying-V aircraft concept developed by TU Delft in collaboration with KLM in IATA Aircraft Technology Roadmap to 2050

Much more efficient technologies are already invented. Without a decisive regulatory and economical stimulus, these will not materialise. Because of CORONA and expected low fuel prices for a long time thereafter, aircraft manufacturers have axed all plans for more efficient aircraft,

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